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Old 04-24-2003, 01:09 PM   #1
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Default Human Knowledge: Foundations and Limits

Ran across an interesting, rather kooky project a few days ago.

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This living hypertext is a systematic summary of the knowledge attained by human civilization. For each subdivision of human knowledge, the text identifies its fundamental concepts, principles, mysteries, and misunderstandings.
It's an impressive attempt. And if I got booted back a thousand years, or was marooned on a planet and couldn't bring a complete encyclopedia of human knowledge, I'd want this summation. He covers everything. Everything. Some of the topics are still incomplete (for example, Euclidean geometry, many of the sections under Physiology, and Genetics are currently without content), but what is there is still impressive.

Check it out for yourself. Everything from Aesthetics to Macroeconomics to Paleolithic History to Wave Mechanics to Galactic Astronomy to Futurology to Formal Logic to Number Theory to Theology. A great way to blow an afternoon, browsing through human knowledge in such a condensed form.

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